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Ken Aizawa

Disciplines:
philosophy of mind
cognitive science

Summary

American philosopher who has critically analyzed the extended mind hypothesis — arguing that Clark and Chalmers's parity principle is insufficient to establish that external processes are genuinely cognitive.

Core Contribution

The Cognition-Content Connection: defends the mark of the cognitive — genuinely cognitive processes involve non-derived mental content, distinguishing them from external processes merely causally coupled to cognition.

Notable Works & Achievements

The Cognition-Content Connection

Historical Influences

Jerry Fodor Fred Dretske

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Philosophy of Mind

Contemporaries & Peers

Andy Clark

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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